I believe the game plan is to starve the population during the delay, fostering dissent (or just chaos) so a puppet government will be in place before the icbms

I believe the game plan is to starve the population during the delay, fostering dissent (or just chaos) so a puppet government will be in place before the icbms. Because that went so well the last time, after all. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9...